Training Log Archive: paul c

Out to Crondall, Farnham, back over the top and down past brick hill.

Barry Buddon. What a crap run. Got a late start as i was on parking duty and wasn't in any frame of mind at the start. Missed 1 and lost 2 mins!! Went alright for a while and caught sight of mark brown until 6. Minimal time losses until the mother of all £@ck ups at 16!! Parallel error and i ended up too far east. Rather than get out of there and relocate i wandered around for 7 mins before i stumbled on it. Ok to the finish from there. On a positive i felt ok physically today:-)

Chasing start. Great head to head racing today. Started 8 sec's behind Tom, 25 in front of Todd and about 30 in front of James. We were in a bunch from 3 i think and Tom did the 1st 3 or 4 then he went off a little and i naved to 6 and 7. Todd took over from there and he pushed the long leg hard. Tried to take straighter lines and kept in contact. He got to 10, punched it then stood still. I thought this was my turn to take the lead and headed off to 11. As i looked to my left for the 3 of them they weren't there and then they appeared from another control. I had punched the wrong one so had to go back the 50 metres. Thanks lads for calling me back!! The 1st mistake was at 14 and had to relocate on the track to the east. Prob about 2mins too long. Tom took over nearly to 16, which i punched 1st. We lost Todd here. A bit of a flaff at 20 and then i lost 100m at 23 going into the wrong re entrant. Couldn't catch them after that. A really nice day and great competition. Achillies hurt today as the running was more intense.

Nice walk around Edinburgh and then watched the sprints.

Classic. Bloody hell that was tough. My legs are in tatters and there's no way i'm doing a sprint tomorrow!! Not a great start to 1 and very bad in the circle. Overshot 5, too far around for 7, and a real bad route choice for 22. I had originally planned to follow the fence line around but as i punched 21 Tim Tett passed me and went down through the crossing to the north. Blindly i followed him into a real crappy area all the way to the control. I crossed swamps and all sorts. So lots of time lost but i made the chasing start for thursday:-)

Middle race. Didn't make any errors today but just not fit enough yet. Always in control and placed ok.

Event: Scottish Six Days Tay 2009
 

Dalrulzion. Happy with the day. Not sure on the results yet though. Took it real steady on the 1st 8 and didn't lose contact at all. Lost 30 sec at 12 because i didn't think they'd put water at a control. Lost about 2.30 at 14 as i lost contact. Then made a bad route choice to 16. Went on the inside of the fence for too long and then had to hack through the large area of dark green for what seemed forever. The rest of the run was ok and i thought the map was very good.

10 hours in the car:-(